![]() ![]() It was a clever idea, and pretty well executed. ![]() Larry Davis was based on movie / radio comedian Danny Kaye ! The editor at Magazine Enterprises who bought FunnyMan was Vin Sullivan, who also bought Superman from Siegel & Shuster when he was an editor at National Periodical Publications! ![]() When he discovered he had captured an actual criminal, Larry decided to continue battling crime, using mocking humor and embarrassing tricks to punish evildoers! His girlfriend / agent June suggested a publicity stunt with Larry dressing in his trademark clown outfit, "accidentally" coming upon a (staged with actors) "crime scene" and disarming and capturing the "criminals" using his props, all the while being photographed by conveniently-placed cameramen.Īs you might have guessed, Larry stumbled on a real crime in progress, and thinking it was the stunt, captured a real criminal! FunnyMan for Magazine Enterprises!įunnyMan was Larry Davis, a comedian looking for a shtick. To pay the bills, they solicited work from other comics companies both on existing characters and, in one case, creating a NEW character. ![]() When they sued DC Comics (then National Periodicals Publications), they lost all the assignments (both individually and as a team) they were working on. Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster faced that problem in 1947! What do you do after you've created the ULTIMATE comics character.and lost the rights to him? ![]()
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